On the occasion of the 76 th anniversary of the founding of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Korea Today September 9, Juche 113 (2024) marks the 76 th founding anniversary of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Today, the DPRK is achieving notable successes in all fields of state activities including politics, the economy, culture and military affairs, thanks to the seasoned and sophisticated leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un . With the embodiment of the people-first principle in all fields of state activities, in the 2020s alone, tens of thousands of flats in distinctive styles were built in the capital city of Pyongyang, and modern rural houses suited to the specific features of the regions appeared in many parts of the country, thus opening up a new era of rural rejuvenation. The appearance of the country underwent a facelift, and modern factories and enterprises sprang up thanks to the DPRK’s policy of providing its people with a more affluent an...
KIM JONG UN BECOME PILLARS SUPPORTING A PROSPEROUS FUTURE KOREA Congratulatory Speech at the National Meeting of the Korean Children’s Union Held in Celebration of the 66 th Anniversary of Its Founding June 6, Juche 101 (2012) Dear members of the Korean Children’s Union across the country, Dear delegates to the National Meeting held in celebration of the 66 th anniversary of the founding of the KCU, I am very happy and pleased today to see you, our proud KCU delegates, who have come from various parts of the country, from as far afield as Jongilbong Secondary School at the foot of Mt. Paektu and Chodo Secondary School on the front line of the country, and other model KCU members. When I see your dignified appearances and dear faces, I feel as if I am seeing your friends and teachers, your parents, brothers and sisters who saw you off on your journey to Pyongyang. I extend warm congratulations to you delegates and other KCU members...
KIM IL SUNG REPORT TO THE SIXTH CONGRESS OF THE WORKERS’ PARTYOF KOREA ON THE WORK OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE (EXCERPT) October 10, 1980 3. LET US REUNIFY THE COUNTRY INDEPENDENTLY AND PEACEFULLY ... Based on the noble ideals and principles laid down in the July 4 North-South Joint Statement, and taking into consideration the actual situation in our country in which different ideologies and social systems exist in north and south, we must seek the shortest and surest way to national reunification and make positive efforts to reunify the country. Our Party considers that the most realistic and reasonable way to reunify the country independently, peacefully and on the principle of great national unity is to draw the north and the south together into a federal state, leaving the ideas and social systems existing in the north and south as they are. For a long time, ever since liberation, differen...